Welcome to The Information Economy and to a voyage of exploration of the ways that data is changing our lives as citizens, the jobs we do and the way we see the world.

This brand new conference will help the insight and marketing world embrace the ways in which data creates thrilling opportunities for innovation, health, leisure, citizenship and understanding of the world around us. It opens our minds to possibilities for innovation in every part of our lives. It can help us to build a happier, more prosperous, more secure future. It can put power into the hands of ordinary people to control their lives.

This conference is an investigation into what that future may look like, and how we work together to create it. We will hear from the world's leading radical thinkers in every walk of life. Academics, futurologists, entrepreneurs, data scientists and technologists will talk about how we can become happier and healthier, how data gives power to all of us to change our world, how we can predict the future better and how we can create machines that think.

It's a fusion of expertise that will prepare us to thrive in the future that data is building for us.